Ruth Roman (born Norma Roman born December 22nd, 1922 - September 9, 1999)was an American actress of stage, film and television.After playing stage roles on the east coast, Roman relocated to Hollywood to explore a film career. She appeared in several uncredited bit parts before she was cast as the leading lady in the western Harmony Trail (1944) and as the title character in the serial film Jungle Queen (1945), her first film credits performances.Roman first starred in the role of Belle Starr's Daughter as the title character in Belle Starr's Daughter (1948).She had her first major success with a role in The Window (1949) and in the same year, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year and the category of Actress for her performance on Champion (1949). In the 1950s, she was contracted to Warner Bros. and starred in several films including the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Strangers on a Train (1951). Roman also began to appear as a guest on TV series around the middle of the 1950s. Also, she worked in foreign countries and made films in England, Italy, and Spain. She was also a passenger aboard the SS Andrea Doria when it collided with another ship and was sunk in 1956. In 1959, she received the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in the play Two for the Seesaw. Her numerous television appearances brought her a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. FameNorma Roman was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Lithuanian Jewish parents, Mary Pauline (nee Gold) and Abraham "Anthony" Roman. When a fortune teller advised her mother that "Norma was not lucky," she was changed to Ruth. Her mother was a professional dancer and her father worked as a barker in the carnival sideshow they ran in Revere Beach. Ann and Eve were her two older sisters.

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